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Nonbottrumpaccount t1_j7iqey0 wrote

In what way was your assessment of this situation objective? You didn't offer a single piece of objective evidence that Google (or alphabet) doesn't care about the wellbeing of our society or its workers.

Objectively speaking they employ 10,000s of workers and compensate them extremely well relative to the average worker. They generate billions of dollars for investors, offer products that nearly the entire world uses and benefits from, have an incredible "green" record, and have donated billions to charity over the last 20 years.

On top of this, as others have pointed out in this thread, they hired a lot of people over the last two years and this workforce reduction, or whatever corporate buzzword they use, is taking them back to historic levels of employment.

Of course these companies are "greedy", they only exist if they make money. But relatively speaking, Google and pretty much all other fortune 50 companies, are probably the most generous to their employees and society.

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Nonbottrumpaccount t1_j7gajjs wrote

So its greedy for a company to fire labor they determine don't need?

It isn't like Google has some obligation to spend a certain ratio of its revenue/profit on labor. The fact that this ratio changes just means that they are getting more or less productive as a company.

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